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Federal Army Casualties • Killed in action = 110,100 • Mortally wounded = 67,088 • Died of Disease = 224,580 • Died as POW’s = 30,192 • Others = 24,881 • Total = 456,841 (another 275,175 were wounded) Confederate Army Casualties • Killed in action or mortally wounded = 94,000 • Died of Disease = 164,000 • Died as POW’s = 31,000 • Total casualties, 1861 to 1865 = 283,026 (plus 194,026 wounded in action) US War Casualties Civil War Battles: Casualties Civil War: Service by population Confederate military deaths by state Union military deaths by state Size of the Armies • Jan, 1861-US=14,663; CSA = 0 • July, 1861-US=186,751; CSA=112K • Jan, 1862-US=527,204; CSA=259K • Jan, 1864-US=611,250; CSA= 278K • May, 1865-US=1,000,516; CSA= app. 300,000 Confederate Assets • 1. Fighting a Defensive War. • 2. Causes - self-determination, selfgovernment. • 3. Best officers on the continent. • 4. Way of life has prepared them (Gun Culture - Hunters) Northern Advantages • • • • 1. Farms (they had all the food) 2. Industry (all the factories too) 3. Population (have more people) 4. Navy (can blockade the south; no imports or exports) • 5. Railroads (troop and supply movers) First Bull Run • Union 35,000 • McDowell • Northern came to watch with their picnic baskets. • 2836 killed, wounded, MIA • Confed. 32,500 • Beauregard • Johnson reinforced. (used the RR) • “Stonewall” Jackson Importance of 1st Bull Run • Confederate Victory • Railroad proved to be very useful • Confederacy could have won the war if they would have attacked D.C. • McClellan replaced McDowell, his army is now 168,000 strong • 54 men in battle will be southern generals. Out West • U.S. Grant was responsible for holding Kentucky in the Union. • Grant’s theory - key to conquering the South was the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. • Must take Ft. Henry and Donelson • … but Nathan Bedford Forrest was at Ft. Donelson. Shiloh • April 6, 1862 - Pittsburgh Landing • U.S. Grant vs. Albert S. Johnson • “Bloody Shiloh” - U.S. Grant quote. • Union - 13,047 dead, wounded, missing. • Confederacy - 10,694 dead, wounded, missing Importance of Shiloh • Johnston (CSA) was killed. Shot behind kneecap. • Johnston was considered to be the top General in the South at the time. • Grant removed from command, Lincoln said “I can’t spare this man; he fights!” Second Bull Run • August 29-30, 1862 • Rebels - Jackson, Longstreet, Hill • Yankees - Pope and Porter • Losses –Union 14,462 killed, wounded, missing –Confederacy 9474 killed, wounded, missing Importance of 2nd Bull Run • Major Confederate victory! • South can now attack the North • By the end of August, Lee had whipped the army that faced him outside Richmond, and the army sent to rescue that army, and finally transferred the fighting from Richmond to D.C. Antietam • Sep. 17,1862 - Lee vs. McClellan • Lee decided to help Maryland secede. (Maryland, My Maryland) • First time Army of North Virginia fought the Army of the Potomac. • Lee was outnumbered 2 to 1. Special Order 191 • Lee’s invasion plans were found wrapped up in a bunch of cigars. • McClellan said “Here is a paper with which if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home.” Corn Field • Union lost 2,200 men in 20 min. • Retreated across the field and then the Confederates attacked over the same field and met the same fate. • Not one corn stalk stood over 1” tall after the fighting. Importance of Antietam • Losses - Union 12,410 kwm. Confederacy 11,172 kwm. • Bloodiest single day of the war • Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle. • McClellan did not pursue Lee’s army, was replaced by Burnside. Fredericksburg • December 13, 1862 • Burnside v Lee • 12653 kwm for Union • 5378 kwm for Confederacy • Burnside only used 17,000 men. • “Fighting” Joe Hooker replaces Burnside. Chancellorsville • May 1st-4th, 1863 • Union = 17,287 kwm. Confed. = 12,463 kwm • Lee v Hooker • “Stonewall” Jackson was shot by own men and died of pneumonia. • Hooker replaced by George Meade • Lee can now attack northward again Gettysburg • July 1 - 3, 1863 • Confederates need shoes and want to stop in Gettysburg on their way to Harrisburg, PA. • Meade is in charge of Union Army 1st Day • By the end of the 1st day, the Confederate troops were in charge of Seminary Ridge, and the Union was in charge of Cemetery Ridge. • 24th Michigan lost 80% of its men in the first day. 2nd Day • Culp’s Hill, Devil’s Den, Peach Orchard, Wheatfield, Little Round Top. • Famous defense of Little Round Top by Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th of Maine. 3rd Day • Lee ordered Pickett’s Charge at the Union center against Longstreet’s advice. This is often considered to be the turning point of the war. After failing on the left and right, Lee tries to break the Union in the center. This is the largest concentration of artillery ever assembled in North America, but Lee’s belief is that “they will break in the center.” It is a slaughter. The Confederates withdraw to VA. Lewis Armistead was the only southern general to reach the top of Cemetery Ridge. Meade did not pursue Lee. Lee retreated back to Va. with a wagon train for the wounded 17 miles long!! Timeline 1863 • July 1-3 Gettysburg • July 4 Vicksburg siege ends. • July 18 - ‘Negro Troops’ of the 54th Mass. Assult Fort Wagner, SC. • Sept. 19-20 - Chickamauga • Nov 19 - Gettysburg Address • Nov 23-25 - Chattanooga • • • • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 •In the West on July 4th, 1863 Vicksburg Surrendered. Grant had accomplished a successful siege. •Lincoln states, “the father of waters flows unvexed to the sea.” Chattanooga • High ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain was held by south. • “Cracker Line”- Union food line, infested food • Lookout Mountain - “The Battle Above the Clouds”, up to a 45% slope! Importance of Chat. Sherman now has a starting point for famous ‘March to the Sea’. Bragg’s army (Confederate) has disappeared! (over 6,000 are missing) Timeline 1864 • May 5 - The Wilderness • May 8 - 19 - Spotsylvania • June 3, 1864 - Cold Harbor Virginia A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes. • June 15 - Siege of Petersburg begins with Grant’s forces surrounding Lee. • Aug 29 - Democrats nominate George McClellan against Lincoln (1864 elec). • Sept 2 - Atlanta is captured by Sherman. The victory helps Lincoln’s bid for re-election. • Nov 15 - Sherman begins his March to the Sea. • Dec 21 - Sherman reaches Savannah. Offers Lincoln Savannah for Christmas. As Sherman’s army marches through the South, slaves follow them to freedom. By Spring 1865, there are few enslaved blacks in the South. The reason for the war is almost gone. Timeline 1865 • April 2 - Grant’s forces break through Lee’s lines at Petersburg. Lee evacuates Petersburg. Richmond is evacuated. • April 3 - Stars and Stripes are raised over Richmond. • April 9 - Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Wilson’s Raid Spring 1865: Union force raids from TN to Montgomery, AL then takes Columbus, GA and captures Jefferson Davis (President of CSA). There is almost no opposition. No Southern manpower left. In early 1865, Southern desertion has grown to 12% per month even though the penalty is death. Politicians in the South blame women for luring men home. ?? Food riots occur in the South. Jefferson Davis blamed women for their lack of sacrifice. This makes less sense than the last one. Appomattox Court House. Timeline 1865 cont. • April 14 - Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth. • April 15 - 7:22am. Lincoln dies. Andrew Johnson assumes presidency. • April 26 - John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia. Lincoln’s Assassination • Lincoln and wife Mary see the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater. At 10:13 p.m. During the third act Booth shoots Lincoln in the head. Doctors move Lincoln to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness. Timeline 1865 • May 23/24 - A victory parade is held in Washington along Pennsylvania Ave. • Dec 6 - The 13th Amendment is passed by Congress. Slavery is abolished. Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60. Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives in '46. Both were runners-up for the party's nomination for vice-president in '56. Both their Vice Presidents and successors were Southern Democrats named Johnson who were born in '08. Both presidents were concerned with the problems of black Americans and made their views strongly known in '63. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which became law in 1863. In 1963, Kennedy presented his reports to Congress on Civil Rights, and the same year was the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Both presidents were shot in their heads. Both presidents were shot from behind. Both presidents were shot in presence of their wives. Both presidents were shot on a Friday. Both presidents were accompanied by another couple. The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile, made by Ford. Both presidents' last names have 7 letters. Both presidents have five syllables in their full name (which counts Kennedy's middle initial). There are 6 letters in each Johnson's first name. Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse; Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre. Both assassins have 3-word and 15-letter names. Both assassins were southerners who sympathized with organizations that were adversarial to the United States. Both assassins were killed within the same calendar month before they could be put on trial. Both assassins were killed in states located immediately west of the states of their births.